php - mysql - SELECT UNTIL in sql

Question

I want to select rows until I found a certain value and it's not numeric so I cannot use > or <. How can I do this ?

Example :

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Value
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45
434
348
213
543
3445
343
123
34345

I want to select all records before 543 (NOT ORDERED BY anything)

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This answer might be late, but since it's the first result on google with term of 'mysql select until' hope this might help someone.

What you can do is declare a marker and if you found the value needed, set the marker to any value other than NULL. Then we can use ISNULL for checking if we have reached the row.

SET @marker = NULL;
SELECT value FROM table1 WHERE ISNULL(@marker:=IF(value=543,value,@marker));

Here is a demo